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I believe the account is so that Overcast's servers can look for new episodes and push background updates so new episodes are there when you open it.
PocketCasts has the same feature without an account. The app can auto-generate a server account using the device's uuid.
Awesome that there's a category called "Turns Out" in the Add Podcast list.
BTW you should all strongly consider listening to the Roderick on the Line podcast. The latest episode is a good one.
Really liking the smart speed and voice boost features. Feels like a huge improvement on my favorite podcast (Gear Geeks Live) which typically has audio quality issues. Don't like getting hit up for an email address right off the bat, but Marco has a pretty solid track record.
Yes it would be nice to avoid this until you are sold. It would also be nice to have an explanation as to why it's needed (web client etc).
> Why an email address instead of a username?
> Password resets.
> I tried usernames with Instapaper at first, but people forgot their passwords and got locked out of their accounts all the time. It was by far the top support problem. Email addresses fix that. (Nothing’s stopping you from entering a fake address, but if you forget your password, I won’t be able to help.)
I feel a bit bad being so superficial, as the app has real merits, but the design is really painful. The app icon is just awful and, unfortunately, it is only a hint of what's to come upon launching the app. I hope it's successful enough to allow Marco some funds to hire a designer.
I feel a bit bad being so superficial, as the app has real merits, but the design is really painful. The app icon is just awful and, unfortunately, it is only a hint of what's to come upon launching the app. I hope it's successful enough to allow Marco some funds to hire a designer.
I've never seen the tab bar put in the navigation bar before, and I really dig it. I'm actually in the process of designing an education app that plays audio, and have been debating how to avoid a hamburger/basement menu or gestures since the main audience for the app is older, and assumably less tech savvy. Putting the tab bar on top is a clever, and in hindsight incredibly obvious, compromise, since it provides for…
>> "I've never seen the tab bar put in the navigation bar before" I don't think it's a tab bar in the navigation bar. It just seems to be four buttons on a UIToolbar equally spaced. Edit: Strange that this was down voted...care to explain why? It's almost certainly not a tab bar. A tab bar switches view controllers. The buttons on this bar present new ones modally leaving the current view controller in place.
Some feedback. I'm a heavy Downcast user. 1) Didn't import all of my subscriptions. Specifically The Patch from Roosterteeth. Considering the opml file contains the URL, I don't see why this happened. 2) At least one or two podcasts I deleted a long time ago got imported. I haven't examined the opml file but Downcast doesn't show them anymore. So either Downcast is doing something wrong or the import is. 3) I read th…
> 2) At least one or two podcasts I deleted a long time ago got imported. I haven't examined the opml file but Downcast doesn't show them anymore. So either Downcast is doing something wrong or the import is. Would you care to hazard a guess as to how Overcast could be getting that data if it's not in the Downcast export :p
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PocketCasts has the same feature without an account. The app can auto-generate a server account using the device's uuid.
Take it from someone who has gone down that path, it's a support nightmare, especially when you want to allow cross-device sync. Much easier to just require the account up-front.